Traditional springtime communal celebrations that provided relief and release have historically migrated to political action.

It’s a pick your holiday weekend in Youngstown. Cinco de Mayo arrives a few days early as the theme for May’s First Fridays ...

Li’l Friday features dozens of ways for people to enjoy the weekend via theater, music, art, culinary happenings and more.

May Day 2026 was celebrated with dawn Morris dancing across parts of the UK and a revived maypole event at California’s Pelican Inn. Rooted in ancient seasonal customs, both traditions brought ...

Maifest returns Saturday with German food and beer, live music, dancing games, and one of the tallest maypoles in the United ...

Des Moines Biergarten to host first-ever Maifest celebration ...

As the brass band played Bavarian tunes and the villagers drank their beer, watched and cheered, the young men of Kühbach in southern Germany pushed up their new maypole ...

In the traditional maypole dance, participants weave colorful ribbons into intricate patterns as they circle the pole in opposite directions. (Courtesy photo) Santa Barbara Revels welcomes the ...

YouTube clears up what kind of profanity is OK to say and still get paid for its creators. Credit: Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Hell yeah. YouTube is finally letting creators know what ...

Also referred to as “midsummer”, the summer solstice has long been celebrated in various cultures around the world.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Four people were shot, three fatally, Friday afternoon on the city's West Side, Chicago police said. The shooting happened in broad daylight near a sidewalk in the 4000-block of West ...

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